I had some doubts about Lemmy, thinking nobody uses it. Postponed registering for years, but I abandoned Reddit anyway.

Turned out, it’s quality over quantity, and having less people is not the issue, but rather the opposite. I’m genuinely impressed how good it is. Also, using iOS, Mlem is a wonderful piece of software. The interface is much better than Reddit! It feels like a very solid upgrade.

I just left reddit and registered lemmy. Did it all on a train ride. It felt pretty easy. Had to search two things: which app do I use for lemmy? And: how do I register for lemmy? Other than that: effortless.

The only thing missing on Lemmy is specialised communities. For everything about news and memes it’s actually much more dynamic and interesting to interact here. Other than that, Reddit is basically only outrage and fake karma stories now.

Mhm when I joined lemmy I simply search for a german lemmy server and found feddit.de registered and I’m using lemmy ever since. I really don’t get how those redditors think its that hard.

That point with the federation, you really don’t need to grasp it when you are a new user, you can learn the intricacies of it later on.

it needs to feel effortless

What an entitled take. No community worth its space is “effortless”. Building an actual, worthwhile community takes care and time, and that need never ends.

But what people really want in these hollow comparisons to Reddit is an infinite content machine - a place to go for an endless stream of mindless content that requires no effort on their part. It’s purely selfish, and if those people are turned away by the “effort” required just to sign up, then good. Users like that are, at best, a burden, and more likely to sway these spaces into directions they’re better off not headed.

The thing is yes we need people, but we need people to understand the concept and build new instances, whether this is for personal use or to accept new users.
Also I don’t get why this guy is trying to sell lemmy to users reddit. Lemmy is supposed to be a different, better than reddit in other ways, why change it? Don’t forget that the creators of lemmy, need $$$$ per month, and features are not 100% doable.

People also say we don’t have user base! We have, but they are here only for politics.

Also, joining to lemmy, it can be done ether by joining an instance or making an instance. And don’t forget the main point, for lemmy to survive and work correct, lots instances need to exist.

Quick question, is there a non-reddit link to read this, preferably on Lemmy

It can’t feel effortless and it never will. Why? Because Reddit is like having every person in your telehone book, easy to find and communicate with. And Lemmy and fediverse in general are like phone numbers without a phone book. You and someone else might both have telephones, but unless you meet in person or another way to exchange contact details, you can’t communicate with each other.

So, people need to put a bit more effort in it to understand it, or we need a fediverse telephone book.

The best strategy I found is to tell Reddit users to use both platforms. Lemmy doesn’t need to be the perfect alternative right away. They just need to test and see that the fediverse is not that hard to understand.

It felt effortless to me. It might need a bit more polished user interface on web, but other than that it feels like a good, user friendly app. What it needs rather is more visibility.

It seems part of the problem is that a lot of people from here want to explain Reddit users why federated platforms are the only viable options, and the Reddit users misunderstand this explanation of how the platforms work and why they have to work that way as an explanation of how to use them.

Using Lemmy or Piefed is not hard. Understanding why centralized alternatives is not an alternative at all, now that requires you to be interested and understand some things. But we don’t really need people to understand that. We just need them to sign up for some instance or another. Preferably not a tankie one.

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